The Most Important Surviving General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard

It's always fun to shoot and drive cars that we all recognize and this one was incredible to drive! This is the only survivor 440 R/T Charger from the Dukes of Hazzard. Of the 17 hero Chargers left this is the only one that is a true 440 R/T car. This is a true piece of American muscle car history and as iconic as it gets. No, we didn't jump it or get any air but plenty of burnouts and donuts to keep you guys happy.
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[@oreally8605]

I'm a black man. I grew up watching the Dukes. I love that car.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Thank you for saying that. It’s made into something it’s not. 👊

[@godsspeedify]

Hi five to my brotha...

[@djurofaca]

Im an illegal alien and i love this car

[@72dodge340]

I'm a random American of a random mix of random colors, and I love this car.

[@scryla2000]

Tell me ONE time race came into play on this show. I’ll wait and I’M a BLACK MAN!! Doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist but THIS show was about the damn car!!!

[@LEMMYKISGOD]

"The Dukes Of Hazzard" introduced me to fast cars, driving recklessly, corrupt government officials, and beautiful women... I am forever grateful Git Git Git 😎

[@AutotopiaLA]

Lemmy K. Is God 😂😂

[@mikegager]

it taught me bad guys always drive sedans

[@satanlaffing]

you & me both brotha. but let us not forget SMOKEY & THE BANDIT as well. that pretty much started everything.

[@aleew20]

In the blame somebody else age. I kinda blame the Dukes, the Bandit, A -Team, Starsky and Hutch, Knight Rider, Canon Ball Run and the Fall Guy for my irresponsible driving and the need to slide anything I am driving around a dirt road corner. Plenty of them where I live. But damn it is fun and never gets old.

[@satanlaffing]

@@aleew20 who do i blame for my constant need to jump a creek, or a passing train, or a police blockade & such?

[@wobblielegs39]

Urrgh. Shameless plug on the push bar. Takes away from the originality big time

[@AutotopiaLA]

Vinyl sticker. No big deal and the Chrome Cars guys just want visibility for their company.

[@KombatRealm]

@@AutotopiaLA so then run an ad on the video?

[@MEQUPWER]

take that sticker off the brush guard, ruins it completly!!

[@paceta80]

I agree

[@STho205]

Buy the car off the guy, and you may peel it off yourself.

[@popuptoaster]

They probably only put it on for the shoot.

[@alphatrion100]

One sticker ruins the entire car. Ok.

[@yakamarezlife]

Dumbass sticker ruined the General Lee

[@irishluck7461]

Get rid of that freaking sticker on the bumber guard what a joke

[@Blood_Goddess]

@Nob the Knave Fuck sponsorship.

[@capcom7794]

@@Blood_Goddess Fuck you

[@capcom7794]

*Triggered over a sticker*

[@gangsterlean7300]

@@capcom7794 fuck you

[@capcom7794]

@@gangsterlean7300 😢

[@rays7437]

That V8 rumble and those burnouts had me grinning the whole time

[@AutotopiaLA]

Awesome!! Me too 👊

[@bryanmchugh1307]

I loved this show when I was growing up! This era Chargers are HUGE. They are 16 feet long and 6 feet wide! I have actually seen Ben Jones' (COOTER) own personal General Lee up in Luray Virginia. The engine sounded like the apocalypse. It was flawless.

[@bisonsgames]

putting that damn sticker on it is like pissing on it. a true car guy wouldnt disrespect the general lee like that.

[@65coupestang]

the sticker says www.chromecars(dot)de the website for the owners of the car which is why it's there 😤🤬 SMH it's only there as atheir advertisement SMH..!!

[@brandonbrown7725]

Never missed a episode when I was a kid.........Fall guy, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard

[@seankeating5005]

And Airwolf and Street Hawk.

[@mr7badass]

Carolus Magnus dumbass. After family ties you should have stopped the list. Asshole monkey garage sucks and is all fake. And where the fuck does flip this house fit into this line up? Moron

[@chadst.pierre5257]

The executive producer of the Dukes of Hazzard, Paul Romeo Picard was my maternal grandmother's first cousin so that means he's my first cousin twice removed. Paul's father Romeo Joseph Picard was my 2nd great uncle and was my great grandfather's older brother. I even have old family photographs that has both Paul's parents in them his father Romeo and his mother Irene. I've also gotten in touch with his sister's granddaughter and grandson just recently. Where they told me that Paul's sister Claire is suffering from the early stages of dementia today and she's still living today in Maryland. I never met Paul himself growing up but I do know some of Claire's grandchildren and her children did know the man personally and has met him. The reason for that is the Picard family never had good family reunions both when my mother or when I was growing up. So myself or my mother never got to know anyone from her mother's side of the family all that much since they never once got together when I was growing up. Also I never once remembered ever seeing any extended family member from my Picard family ever coming to my grandmother's house not once when I visited her when I was growing up but only I got to know her mother my great grandmother only at her home and that was it. But I do think it would've been nice to have met my grandmother's cousin Paul before he died in Italy of Pancreatic Cancer in 1994. But the thing was we always did know about my grandmother's cousin Paul growing up because back then my grandmother did like to brag about Paul being the executive producer of the Dukes of Hazzard television show back in the late 70s early 80s according to my mother. The plus thing was I wasn't born until the end of the year of 1984 by the way so I was very little and I was almost 10 years old when Paul died and living in Arizona at that time.

[@oakpineranch]

Knight Rider was gay!

[@bmann792]

Hell yeah man I used to get out of my mom’s car by sliding out open window lol

[@bretd.6781]

The only Mopar I ever really loved . By far my favorite of all time growing up! Such an honor dude!

[@AutotopiaLA]

Bret D. It was incredible getting to drive it and do a few burnouts!

[@shanedarden369]

Sorry.... the General Lee, did not, and would not have. WWW. anything written on the push bumper.... TAKE IT OFF

[@jaboi1108]

Nob the Knave no I’m guessing it’s because they wouldn’t be sellouts

[@capcom7794]

@@jaboi1108 Sellouts? Bitch, you know how hard it is to make anything on the gay ass platform anymore.

[@onepunchgeorge9251]

A buddy of mine worked gassing up General Lee's in the morning (bunch of them on a car hauler) before the days shooting and, being a MOPAR fan almost cried at the end of the day when he saw them wrecked on another car hauler.

[@bletheringfool]

If they were in NASCAR they would have sponsors :P

[@TheWolverine-rm2kr]

@Nob the Knave because it's the 80s are you dumb?

[@MegaShanes1]

The saddest thing of all is that shows like this and Knight Rider and CHiPS will never ever be repeated.

[@bobbyvinyle3389]

As a young dude I loved dukes of hazard. That cast and car was awesome

[@AutotopiaLA]

Bobby Vinyle right there with you. Getting to do burnouts in this car was so cool 😎

[@bobbyvinyle3389]

AutotopiaLA thanks brother. I love your channel. You’ve got a dream job.

[@microbusss]

I agree & I have a bunch of the toys by Ertl Still want one of these but with a 4 speed stick

[@MrTheHillfolk]

I was glued to the TV. A few years later, my dad became a private pilot and had a plane at a small airport. One of the repair facilities was called Schneider Aviation, it was johns father. he had a soap box derby car up on the wall, painted up in general lee garb. John was known to pop by at any time. Good stuff.

[@bobbyvinyle3389]

MrHillfolk great connections and memories. I love to see that soo many others loved the show as much as I did.

[@futuregohan9662]

The only thing I hate about the show is they destroyed a lot of 69 chargers

[@ryderno1640]

Also 68's but still love em, after all dodge built more than 300:p

[@dukecraig2402]

No one cared about cars like this back then except for gear head's, at the end of the 70's there had been huge increases in gas prices and bad inflation, in 1972 I was at the county fair with my family and half of the cars in the demolition derby were 55-57 Chevys, they're not classic until they get rare and old.

[@AutotopiaLA]

John Marston I hear you but they were 10 year old cars that no one was interested in at the time.

[@jamesdennis2058]

It is missing side marker and back-up lights.

[@jordanwiley4582]

it was probably a 68 converted to A 69. @@jamesdennis2058

[@MavidG]

I still want to jump every flat bed trailer I see when it's it's tilted back.

[@AutotopiaLA]

😂

[@ShinGoukiSan]

Love the car, HATE the URL on the Pushbar.

[@AutotopiaLA]

I get it but they want to give visibility to their company and it’s just a vinyl sticker

[@EverydayJ1786]

So happy you guys burnt some rubber off those tires the way you did . That's the way the general was meant to be driven !

[@AutotopiaLA]

TrustMe ImAMechanic hell yes!

[@PixelFastFood]

Aand the Lee is meant to be jumped/flied with

[@jimwright5492]

Hi there I'm from northern Ireland and to me it takes a lot of power to smoke the rears as your moving ,we over here don't have many cars that can do that , looks class

[@TheLexiconDevils]

Where?

[@G8GT364CI]

@@jimwright5492 I used to drive cars like that when i was a teenager, there is nothing like driving a big block V8 if you've never experienced it, it's hard to describe other than you have to learn to drive with that much power, they have so much torque it's easy to lose it if you're not careful, it's like driving a rocket. You cannot floor one of those without smoking the tires, that's the way real cars were/are.

[@rodcognito002]

Takes me back to 19inch black and white TV in a cabin. I'd have my hot wheels lined up.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Rodcognito 00 awesome!

[@johnbeer5242]

Rodcognito 00 😁✌🍻✌✌✌✌✌✌🍻👏👏✌✌

[@clevelandmaker386]

@@AutotopiaLA and you let a German buy the General!! by history standards.....they didn't like Uncle Jessie! a WWII vet! and a German bought it! too many cars going overseas cause nobody here can afford it

[@oldschoolhiphop2275]

The General Lee was the boss. Legendary.

[@dukecraig2402]

Several weeks ago I had my picture taken sitting in another classic TV vehicle, the Sanford and Son pickup.

[@DylanMcCoolVideo]

Notice too that it has a 1968 rear valence. The 1969 has reverse lights there while the '68 has them integrated into the tail light.

[@johnkramer7161]

Or it might be a 69 valance with the lights removed. The removed the reverse and side marker lights when WB started building the cars.

[@kevinvandeventer8690]

68 had the better rear end imo.

[@korymanuel4037]

@@kevinvandeventer8690 agreed

[@robbiesmith1381]

When the Dukes of Hazzard was pulled from the airwaves a few years back for inciting 'racism,' Tom Schneider was heart broken, to say the least. I agree with Tom: There was nothing racist about that show whatsoever, and there wasn't. The show was pulled over the Stars and Bars on the hood, but - to this day - The Cosby Show is still on Amazon Prime, and we see how things turned out for Bill Cosby.

[@weaslemin7728]

That's actually not the stars and bars

[@robbiesmith1381]

@@weaslemin7728 I meant for the show.

[@shawnblixt547]

I don’t know why people are so against the Rebel flag after all it’s a Democratic flag! Has absolutely nothing to do with Republicans.

[@davidbuckun9019]

If anything was racist about the show, it was stereotyping white country people. Jeesh. I agree nothing racist at all. Just a TV show.

[@EASTSIDE-313]

😂😂😂"Tom Schneider" i think u mean "John Schneider"

[@seanpizzo8256]

Thank you for "keeping it real" with leaving the rebel flag on the roof.

[@iamOAKland]

Nothing rebel about the flag.....if you represent white supremacy then you should be proud of what your people did and are continuing to do to African Americans. You probably don’t even know the definition of the word REBEL means anyway. Stay racist and don’t change.

[@seanpizzo8256]

@@iamOAKland ooooh, I'm so offended. You called me racist. Oh well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmS2qXiFq6aCe8k

[@JunkTardis]

@@iamOAKland Sooo I guess we should change everything in history because a few people don't like it? That's okay, in all future representations of WW2, the Nazi flag will be removed because a few babies can't hack it. Pussy.

[@darienbarth3191]

iamOAKland lol butt hurt

[@Texas_conservative]

Holy shit that was a beating. Please stop I cant stop laughing. Facts dont care about your feeling!!!!

[@brianonthego]

*_Makin' their way...The only way they know how...That's just a little bit more..Than the Law will allow...._*

[@79tazman]

Good ol Waylon Jennings the balladeer of the show

[@aslmx8320]

Just the good ole boys

[@somethingdifferent4u247]

Well said

[@RiffMusic1970]

I’m a good ole boy I know my mama loves me But she don’t understand Why they keep showing my hands And not my face on TV

[@gwlane5509]

BrianOnTheGo exactly! Playing with MB and HW cars while watching the show. LOL Dallas came on afterwards in my time zone...I believe?

[@DirkGently1972]

Oh, that engine rumble takes me back to my childhood watching this show on TV - great times and great TV show 😍

[@ace.kuztoms.613]

Iconic piece of history. One of my favorite shows growing up, that I watched religiously just to see the car jump. As an artist myself, I posted a video of a small scale diorama that I created of the General Lee’s first jump.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Cool. Stoked I got to drive it a little

[@flashy5150]

That 440 hops !!! There's nothing like a high-compression, classic 440 Magnum.

[@AutotopiaLA]

flashy5150 such a great motor. This thing gets up and goes

[@wadeperkins6746]

Favorite show growing up. Bring it back !!!!

[@AutotopiaLA]

Wade Perkin 👊

[@vintagesavoiur]

Too many leftists

[@atranfanatic]

I can watch it anytime I want on my DVDs. I have all 7 seasons and it is my favorite TV show of all time! I was watching it when it was brand new in '79!

[@kilroy294]

why did you put stickers on the General Lee. What were you thinking? I understand that you wanted your website to be seen but put it in the description or on your personal vehicle. Butt DAMN DUDE YOU RUINED IT!!!!!

[@guitarkid9623]

But... he didnt put it on

[@airforce1393]

Fun fact, only a few of the cars had a roll cage and only a few had welded doors, most would actually open. They switched from smaller bull bars to larger bull bars because at some of the filming locations other vehicles would get stuck so they would use the general lee to push them. A larger bull bar meant less of the car would get damaged so that’s why after the first couple of episodes they switched to larger bull bars.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Good fact check here!

[@Thomas.Tommy.Weerman]

One mistake. All the cars had opening doors (ask Tom Sarmento the mechanic, I did) the "welded shut doors" was just a sort of running gag for the tie-in to stockcar racing and NAscar

[@ThePete2432]

It’s crazy to see a dream car from your childhood

[@AutotopiaLA]

sean peterson and to do burnouts in it was amazing!

[@trevagraham1605]

sean peterson I'm 42 and it's still my dream car!!!

[@ThePete2432]

Treva Graham I still dream about the general lee and kit from the night rider... and viscous mustang

[@trevagraham1605]

@@ThePete2432 Indeed!

[@wagonman1967]

Cool surviving General Lee Yes. I think the Most Important one is the one they gave to Waylon Jennings. Ya know WAYLON JENNINGS Nuff said.

[@AutotopiaLA]

george reid love Waylon

[@dannyboyy31]

Thanks from a UK child of the seventies, loved watching this. It brought back so many happy memories of watching the DoH with my Dad each week. RIP Dad.

[@jesusissalvation74]

Condolences to your to you and your family. 🌷🌹

[@thebob01]

My dream car! I fell in love with this car when I was 10 years old watching the Dukes of Hazzard as a kid. I'm 51 now and I still love this car. I hope to own one one day.

[@ProducerLare]

$1,600 per car in 1978-79 isn’t too bad of a budget. That’s roughly $6k in 2019 dollars. 👍👍. Great content, thanks for sharing! ❤️LOVE THE DUKES!! ❤️

[@AutotopiaLA]

LRL Official glad you enjoyed this one!

[@Wildstar40]

I'd love to pick up a Charger for $1600.00 !!!!!!!

[@IamGalvatron]

From what I’ve read they offer Charger owners 500 of that 1600 limit. Put into perspective the Chargers popularity pre-Dukes.

[@AutotopiaLA]

LincolnTek you and me both

[@marcaliventialiventi765]

Back in the 80s that might have been possible

[@ianmayer2951]

Well, you need a time machine like the DeLorean and go back in 1979 and then pick one up for 1600$ and then you'll have to live in the 80's and meet KITT from Knight Rider head to head to compete with jumps.

[@slckb0y65]

65.000$ for a stock refurbished one last time i checked ...

[@fujimandkimyates3206]

WWW . Take that damn sticker off. Com. Generally did not have a www sticker on it hello.

[@AutotopiaLA]

It’s just a sticker. Comical that with a survivor from the show that the sticker gets comments 😂

[@Steger13]

Yep didnt have it.

[@MrMoe158]

The first 200 people before you already said it shut the hell up

[@joeysane416]

The BEST show on television EVER!!!

[@LouC518]

As a young guy watching this car do what it did, I then based my younger days on outrunning the local popo!! On sportbikes though!! I did believe that all you ever needed was a bright orange charger and daisy duke!! Ahhh great memories, thanks Shawn and autopia for another Awesome video!!!

[@AutotopiaLA]

C Carlson awesome!! Would love to have had Daisy next to me while shooting. Probably wouldn’t have brought the car back 😂

[@jamesclark5082]

I love it only a true mopar enthusiast can appreciate this car. Mopar OR NO CAR.i would say this is the most popular car ever.the dodge brothers are so proud

[@AutotopiaLA]

James Clark certainly one of the most iconic cars ever produced

[@MartintheTinman]

I'm a Ford guy and would kill everyone on the planet to have a General Lee

[@SUPRAMIKE18]

Im a toyota fan but i appreciate it, my grandpa had a few mopars.

[@coripuckett5596]

Mopar dont go far.... But the General is a cool car...

[@TheLexiconDevils]

95% of Dodge cars on the road are no longer on the road

[@GLRESTOMOD]

So thankful you featured this one! This video and all the Superformance videos are my favorite car videos on KZbin! As someone planning a next level General Lee restomod, I truly appreciate you featuring a survivor from the series! Once you own one you begin hating the show because they purposely destroyed things that so many people appreciate. However, I’m all in on preserving them, and I love my General Lee! Love the sound of that exhaust! I plan on making mine very aggressive on the exhaust!

[@G8GT364CI]

When I was a kid a friend of mine had a 1968 440 GTX, it didn't sound as good as this one but it definitely pushed you back in that seat and smoked up the tires, we didn't appreciate what we had back then. 440's are great motors.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Great motors for sure!

[@charliekline3975]

The Greatest tv car ever in my Opinion

[@AutotopiaLA]

Charles Kline definitely one of the top 2 or 3 for me

[@pjgathergood6987]

KITT comes close... but the General will always be the ultimate TV car. Of all time.

[@BadBoyJ01]

The tumbler is the 2nd great tv car in my opinion.

[@turbo6598]

man I know how you feel to be driving this car. Most people got a car they seen as a kid and mine's( 87 buick grand national ) ain't no movie / TV car but it was something I seen as a kid and driving it everyday is a blast and put a smile on my face just as you was smiling driving this General Lee

[@AutotopiaLA]

Turbo 6 you get it. Couldn’t stop smiling driving this one 👊

[@gelandewagen4376]

you can immediately see that he is well versed in oil cars and loves supercharged legendary cars and likes bro

[@craiggraham7746]

They need to lose nether tacky www ad off the pushbar

[@craiggraham7746]

As “the most important general lee” is should remain authentic in my opinion.

[@fayettefishingoutdoors8385]

“Couple of southern dudes slammin around with there cousin”

[@AutotopiaLA]

Fayette Fishing Outdoors 👊

[@MrBlewvane]

To be fair Daisy was smoking hot, i wanted to 'slam' her too.

[@allemander]

Fayette Fishing Outdoors *their cousin

[@magnessfarmswildlife]

Sounds like my family reunions

[@rustychevy7035]

It's amazing how a slab of metal with no shapely angles other than the sweeping roof line can look so sexy, this is my all time number one muscle car, what an icon

[@AutotopiaLA]

The Charger is one of the most perfect muscle cars ever produced

[@thebob01]

@@AutotopiaLA I agree 100%

[@watchguy79]

9:40 best part. I loved this show and this car is a dream to have. So awesome you guys, thanks for sharing.

[@jeremyzworld814]

Cars have been my whole life. I LOVE tv and movie cars!!!!! My sons have the same love for them. Thank you for saving, maintaining and most of all sharing these beautiful cars with everyone. Thank you!!!!!

[@AutotopiaLA]

Glad you enjoyed it! I’m the same...hardcore enthusiast

[@jasonwandling4203]

The doors are from a 68 charger. In 69 the inside lock button was moved forward.

[@1967davethewave]

I was going to say the exact same thing. I wonder if they have been on there since the car was used on Dukes or if they were added during the restoration.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Jason Wandling picture cars are like Lego’s on set. Grab this and put it there. Cool, now shoot!

[@gwolf6975]

Interesting.

[@dark_one1337]

this also was a vinyl top car ,why don't they removed the trim to it looks stupid.

[@adamdavis2760]

@@dark_one1337 they were all vinyl top cars, because of this Chrysler never took the body filler or seems out of the rear pillars if you look close enough you can see it. and you're right the trim looks stupid

[@Mattmazz77]

Awesome brother, definitely 1 of my favorite shows growing up. Had me climbing in and out of car doors.....😂🤣

[@AutotopiaLA]

Matthew Mazzella 😂 wanted to do a good slide so bad but didn’t want to dent the hood 😂

[@johnbeer5242]

Matthew Mazzella haha🍻😁

[@gwolf6975]

Haha, all the time as a kid!

[@pfcthomasw.9394]

Your one LUCKY man. I sat in the car when I was 14 the 2 ladies didn't want to let me, fear of insurance issues. My dad promised him it would not be a problem. So they let me sit in the car for ONE photo op. Sadly, in the course of time I lost the picture. But the pic lived forever in my memories 😇👍🏼

[@rays7437]

I started watching that show because I literally grew up with Chargers. My grandpa bought a brand new 68 the year I was born, then when gas got too expensive because of OPEC, he traded it in on a brand new 73. I remember both cars very well. I actually still have the 73.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Awesome!! Love it 👊

[@jasonpeters9390]

A bity about the door handles and the doors not welded shut watching the duke boys climbing in and out of the general was apart of the excitement to me any how

[@AutotopiaLA]

Jason Peters Bob is a long time picture car guy and he said the doors did open but to keep the bootlegger/Nascar theme they climbed through the windows.

[@jasonduke3608]

Jason Peter's, just wondered what do you mean about the door handles? Ok I'm a former Grneral Lee owner, it would suck major ass if the doors were really welded shut. Its murder on the door skin, the door and your back. Plus how would you shut the windows if it was raining or you wanted to lock it up? I would always get a good laugh when I'd go to a car show open the door to get out and a grown adult would spaz out that I did'nt go through the window. I'd still own my lee had it not have been stolen. If you get the chance. I highly recommend getting one it is a huge blast all the time.

[@Properformancenutritioncom]

@@AutotopiaLA Uncle Jessie had to get in too.

[@notablynova4247]

Watch the series again lol even as a 5 year old I saw all the scenes where the doors would move while driving

[@jasonpeters9390]

My mistake they still kept the door handles on I thought they took them off

[@DaisysmellowyellowPlymouth]

Wish I had your job, hahaha!!! Wow, this car is So special! I'm glad he knew All that cool trivia! This, by the way, is one of the 1968 dressed General Lee's. No taillights in the rear valance, no sidemarkers are always '68s. Another cool thing is that it's a column shift car! That's Cool! I know some trivia but I learned some Great things!!! That's quite awesome to think of a day when this car could be bought for $1600 bucks! And a Lot of people Hate The Dukes for what happened to the said 321 Chargers, but like he said: they were 10 years old. I'd wreck a 10 year old car and not give it a second thought as well... Hahaha, now, maybe that's why 1968 Chevelles kept popping up in a handful of episodes. Going to make me appreciate those cameos more from now on! This was just Perfect!!! Oh, one thing he didn't mention was that they dyed the tan in, in the cars used from late season 5 forward. It came off looking more beige... This is why the mirror matches the paint in this car, which usually would have been black with the neck chrome. I can't say Thank You, enough! Thanks for showing off *The* General Lee, Hahahaha! Awesome!!!! And, it sounds bitchin' too, hahaha!

[@AutotopiaLA]

Killer comment here! I loved the trivia Bob had to offer. He knows the show, the cars and the history of picture cars as good or better than anyone.

[@jimmyshempert9005]

I was 4 yrs old when the Dukes of Hazzard first aired on TV in 79 so I grew up watching this car on TV this is my dream car

[@neverendingmods]

I grew up watching dukes of Hazzard and I loved that show. That show started my car craze and got me into wanting to go fast.

[@peterdiamantakiou]

That was awesome the only RT 440 charger left from the original tv series....and it still kicks ass...

[@AutotopiaLA]

Agreed...so amazing to drive this one

[@brentonk461]

I grew up watching Dukes of Hazzard. I think it was, one of the greatest shows ever made. if I could now choose, be given just one car, out of the all the cars in the world ever produced, i would choose this one.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Brenton K awesome!! Such a cool piece of American muscle car history

[@brentonk461]

@@AutotopiaLA yeah! They don't make cars like that anymore.

[@louisb.6149]

The fact that it’s the RT and not just thrown in there afterwards is super amazing. I also remember those wild roll bars, it was what made the car look so rad apart from that insane orange

[@123cheetacat123]

Very sweet glad to see another 1 saved, even if some edges are rough, it's still looks like it's ready for the screen, and to me that's what matters, very nice ! :)

[@joeculpepper1677]

During making the general lee they used a mixture orange paint thrown together and they used tape for the flag on the top. A lot of the Chargers had 318, to a 440 engine. The roll cage wasn't completely in the car during filming. They added it for detail and looks. Remember during filming they would have the car on a camera rig.sometimes towed or pulled the car. Some of them had no.windshields . still a great show always loved it. Also the horn wasn't an air horn. It was originally an electronic horn made back in the 70s it had a different sound in the show. If you can find any remaining electronic horns grab them it's worth it.

[@kurtpoblenz2741]

Awesome, awesome, awesome!! Best tv show car EVER!!!

[@AutotopiaLA]

Kurt Poblenz agreed!

[@65coupestang]

NOOO WAY THE BEST/MOST IMPORTANT TV/MOVIE CAR IS IMO THE 67 SHELBY GT500 ELEANOR) FROM THE GONE IN 60 SECONDS REMAKE WITH NIC CAGE IN IT AS "MEMPHIS RAINES" RETIRED MASTER CAR THIEF 😅'NUFF SAID AS ANOTHER COMMENTER PUT IT 🤨😅..!!

[@kurtpoblenz2741]

Ryan Beers lets agree to disagree on this one Ryan....

[@flashy5150]

I love the roar when he stomped on it. Just like the tv show.

[@x-man4702]

This program aired all over the world, I watched it growing up in South America. I'm a big fan of the show.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Me too. I grew up on this

[@hoagiesherlin7732]

Dude i was 6 years old the 1st time i saw the general and ive been in love ever since!!!

[@AutotopiaLA]

Hoagie Sherlin awesome! Such an iconic car!

[@lovethesmellofracefuelinth7374]

Yep my first car was a 68 and paid $1,600 for it in 81, so that is about right and can verify what he said. It was only 318 car, but it looked hot with keystone classics on her and got a lot of attention. That is a sweet ride Sean, and another great Mopar vid 👍🏼

[@douglasthorburn1975]

Favourite show growing up. I'm from Glasgow area in Scotland and I would still drive this about here right now. That sound from the engine is iconic.

[@AutotopiaLA]

It is a true icon and still being driven but now lives in Germany with my friends Chrome Cars

[@douglasthorburn1975]

@@AutotopiaLA It is getting closer to Scotland at least 🤣

[@propdoctor21564]

Just found your channel and subscribed. This was one of my favorite old TV shows from back in the day and one of my all-time favorite cars... So cool that this is actually one of the original TV show road cars... Thanks so much for sharing it !!

[@matthewboylez34]

Horns a little special on this one..."der-pa deeeeer-pa deeer-pity deeeeeeeer-pa deeeeer-pa."

[@AutotopiaLA]

matthewboylez34 a little slower but it makes it even funnier for me

[@colonelcatastrophe4821]

I can live with the lame sicker on the pushbar cause it's still got the flag on the roof!!

[@AutotopiaLA]

And it’s just a simple sticker for the company. No big deal although some folks are freaking out here!

[@AutotopiaLA]

And it’s just a simple sticker for the company. No big deal although some folks are freaking out here!

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

That is a crazy jump @2:25! The General Lee has long been my favourite TV series muscle car, it has a such great profile.

[@qbnquinn3188]

I'm an african american from Louisiana and I grew up watchin them as well and tht car always been bad ass!!!

[@CrabSpirits]

Any true fan of the show knows slowing down the horn like that increases your altitude by 50ft at least. That's how you know this is the real deal.

[@AutotopiaLA]

😂 funny comment bro 👊

[@looseele]

So true...a slow horn sequence meant a scary jump and freeze frame followed by a commercial

[@stankfanger1366]

@@looseele I can't believe you left out "short, suspenseful Waylon monologue"... for shame.

[@jordanwiley4582]

it's not the most important General Lee, LEE 1 is. still kickass tho.

[@bb-gc2tx]

That car is a fraud barely anything orginal on it. The guy who found it is a scam artist. It's basically a replica car now

[@tahallsson13]

@@bb-gc2tx with that kind of thinking there is no original car out there... it has its original drive train... just because all of the panels were replaced does not bring anything away from how it was saved and restored.

[@jaro2608]

@@bb-gc2tx so because they used donor fenders makes it a fake???? so does that make every thing that is fixed a fake??? The Mona Lisa has had work done on it so i guess with your train of thought its fake too??? how about the statue of liberty or the Washington Monument or White house or ANYTHING just because it has replacement parts on it doesn't make it fake.

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@jaro2608 yes it does

[@brad1674]

@@bb-gc2tx lol your a clown

[@ARCEYE78]

Finally at 43 I’m gonna be driving a general lee charger next month for 6 miles on a track, it’s also stated that it’s a genuine car from the show with a few of the actors signature on the boot(trunk) It was my favourite show and car when I was a kid and it’s still my dream car to this day, to say I’m excited is an understatement, After watching this and hearing that car roar had just added even more excitement, not many of these beasts here in the U.K.

[@calvinhandley2373]

For those that don't know, in the video they say that 69's came with disc brakes, kind of implying that disc brakes were standard. 69 Chargers were available with 4-piston Kelsey Hayes front disc brakes and 10" rear drums as an option. The standard set up was 10" diameter drums at all four wheels. On 440/426 Hemi equipped cars (R/T, Charger 500, Daytona) 11" Drum brakes aka "police brakes" we're standard on all four wheels. The vast majority of Chargers were equipped with 4 wheel drums.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Thanks for clarifying. I didn’t even know discs were an option which is great given the time period

[@calvinhandley2373]

If I remember correctly disc brakes were first an option on the big C-body MoPars in 1966. I know they were available on the A and B body cars as early as 68. They became standard on all B, C, and E body cars, and all V-8 powered A bodies in the 1973 model year when the US government implemented a new set of minimum braking standards. The 6 cyl A-body cars got 10" front drums like the ones previously used on V-8 cars paired with the 9" drums that had always been used. Disc brakes were an option on the 6-cylinder cars.

[@rogergoodman8665]

Nice General Lee but to me the most important car is the one that was presented to John Schneider by Warner Brothers.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Roger Goodman fair call. I’d still go with this one as it’s the only 440 RT left from the show

[@Pcola70Chevelle]

Roger Goodman is day Lee1 is the most important. Bubba Watson owns it here in my hometown.

[@mikegibson8698]

@@Pcola70Chevelle Didn't Bubba paint over the flag on the roof?

[@Pcola70Chevelle]

Mike Gibson No, he just has a big magnet covering it. The kind you see on a business/work truck door. Its color matched to the general.

[@TheNova64000]

When Warner Brothers sold the 17 cars, they kept one car that went on to star in the reunion movies and the 2005 remake! Its currently on display as part of the Warner Brothers Studio Tour! Even if the car that WB still has isn't a 440 RT, would the fact that it went on to appear in the movies make it more desirable than this one? While some might argue that it is, it is not likely to end up in private hands. This is arguably the most desirable General Lee that Chris from Chrome Cars could buy...

[@tim94com]

"All the other ones just had the 383 or whatever" Oh man..

[@jonmeray713]

Tim Taylor many people would argue the 383 is faster then both the hemi and the 440....

[@GeorgiaRidgerunner]

john schneider on his youtube channel just a few days ago said the generals had all kinds of engines in em when they got em but he also said that they only had one 440 car and it was totaled cause it sunk to the bottom of a lake before it could be jumped

[@marcusdengler8933]

@@jonmeray713 My dad had a 383 4 speed Hurst. Lost the cops twice. He drove 440 cudas and said exactly what you said. Why? Simple. Weight.

[@greengoloco6559]

I attended a Dukes of Hazard festival a few years back- Seeing the Bristol speedway full of orange Chargers was something I'll never forget.

[@AutotopiaLA]

It’s simply one of the most iconic cars ever

[@medallionmotionpictures]

That car made the show. The engine sounds like a monster loose out of a cage. the car looks fantastic. Thanks for the history on this car.

[@tierone4761]

Aside from being one of the original surviving cars from the tv series, it is also sort or rare as not many factory R/T Chargers had the column shifter. Most were either 4 speeds or the Torque Flite cars had the shifter in the center console, between the bucket seats. Good Day Everyone!

[@Brad772006]

That 440 sounds so good with that exhaust. This car bring back some good memories of Friday evening viewing at 8 o'clock.

[@AutotopiaLA]

I’m with you 👊

[@thommothomason7297]

Thanks for showing us that there is a real one left and it still drives! I enjoyed your video Man

[@AutotopiaLA]

Glad you enjoyed it. So cool that it’s a rare survivor from the show

[@5jjt]

When Bo & Luke were replaced, it just wasn't the same. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. That was fun!

[@brianpauley1151]

great show, even better car, & that's from a FORD MAN. Such a shame that America is being forced to turn it's back on the car & show due to the beautiful flag on top. long live the GENERAL LEE, & THE CONFEDERACY !

[@ravemachin]

Then display the correct flag......the white one

[@Thinker669]

The horn sounds too slow. Is there a leak on one of those hoses? The Dixie horn are usually fast and they have 5 horns.

[@ryderno1640]

It needs compression from the engine

[@AutotopiaLA]

Mr. Nationwide there’s a few tweaks to be done on this car including the slow horn

[@dogwalker666]

Could be a under rated cable to the compressor

[@DYNAMITEDORK]

Thanks for sharing! Most importantly, thanks for keeping it original 👍

[@connleyjones9096]

I’m a young black man. I was grew up with watching the Dukes that is badass 😈😮‍💨i told him my dad i want buying that but my dad said trying find from that 🙌🏾

[@sirroadkillgtx8833]

The reason the push bars are different is because there was two different shops that built GL's for Warner Bros.

[@reginaldfitzpatrick8681]

You better be very careful driving that in California, i hear its considered a hate crime now.

[@seankeating5005]

In a couple of years, driving any car yourself will be a crime. AI is the future.

[@AutotopiaLA]

Reginald Fitzpatrick 😂 makes it even more fun to drive

[@iamOAKland]

Reginald Fitzpatrick if you knew what a hate crime really is you wouldn’t have the audacity to compare the two and disrespect the millions of black Americans, Native Americans who lost lives from your white supremacist family members you piece of shit human being.

[@reginaldfitzpatrick8681]

@@iamOAKland thank you. You just proved my point EXACTLY friend =]

[@Jleed989]

What’s happened to our country? 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@thetexasr.a.t.2059]

My first car was a 1970 R/T Dodge Charger with a 440 Magnum. It was blue with a black vinyl top. I was 16 years old in the summer of 1979. I drove it 120 miles per hour every where I went. That was my cruising speed. I ran that car like the Dukes did. I jumped railroad track, low water crossings, or any dip in the road I could find. I got arrested at 16 years old the first time for drag racing down center street (the main street through the town) of Kyle Texas. It was in Hays County of which had only 5 County Deputy Sheriffs that had to cover the whole county, so we hardly ever saw one in the first place. So other than fame the Duke boys ain't got nothing on me because I did it for real! Sad to say, but in 1985 my mom cracked the block, and one head, by putting cold tap water in it when it overheated, so I scrapped it at Newels Salvage yard in south Austin. I miss that car but I probably would be dead sooner or later if I kept driving it. Anyway I loved watching the Dukes of Hazard and then go out and terrorize the back roads in Hays county Texas. Yes, in case you be wondering, I am Will Ferguson from Hays High School back in the day.

[@J-WHO312]

Thanks for video, because of The Dukes of Hazard I jumped a 1974 fleetwood brogham Cadillac over train tracks all 4 tire off the ground at least 2ft high. I was 17 and my 12 yr old brother was with me. Yeeehaaaaaww!

[@AutotopiaLA]

Crazy!!! Did the car survive?

[@J-WHO312]

AutotopuaLA: I managed to stick a perfect landing! Lots of noise dust and scraped up concrete, but drove the car for 3 more years. FYI always wear your seatbelt when attempting a jump.

[@redtra236]

At least a lap belt and make sure its really tight otherwise your head will contact the ceiling

[@mattrobison4079]

I'm so jealous that you got to drive to General Lee

[@AutotopiaLA]

Sorry...it was really fun! And the slow horn was cracking me up. Such a fun episode to shoot

[@totalcardetailing2022]

Bring the show back on tv.

[@AutotopiaLA]

7M-MAN Dr. O 👊

[@FastLanePros]

There's not enough chargers left to do that in all reality

[@Kuson2]

@@FastLanePros I think he means have them play the original show on cable again, it got banned from TV in the US for the rebel flag, they claim that the show is racist because of it.

[@FastLanePros]

@@Kuson2 oh ok, I dont do cable. TV is too liberal for me anymore. He should buy the DVD sets

[@officialclownbusiness7788]

Spirit of 1776 actually, there were several, but don't tell modern blacks that. Their heads will implode worse than the General's suspension on that train jump.

[@jetstreamthemusicalgamer7879]

The dukes of hazzard introduced me to the Dodge Charger. This, fast and furious, bullit and Dirty Mary Crazy Larry solidified my love for this car. It’s my dream car 😍

[@maximumprotectionsecuritys8195]

Growing up watching this sure did teach me how to drive defensively.

[@AutotopiaLA]

And aggressively 🤘

[@maximumprotectionsecuritys8195]

@@AutotopiaLA That to lol

[@nathansciarone5627]

I like the stance with the tall rear end lol.

[@terrymonroe2580]

You’re so lucky! I’d love to drive that beast!

[@AutotopiaLA]

I know. This was so cool to drive and even the slow horn didn’t bother me...thought it was funny

[@michaelcline7458]

My mind melted when you got out by opening the door at the end

[@ValHemi265]

Native Maori here from New Zealand. I loved the sound first, the color second, then the black grill and bars. The rest as they say, is history. Ateams GMC is still 2nd place after all those year's.